Sue Vodicka

Sue Vodicka

Title: Head Women's Soccer Coach
Phone: 803-641-3651
Email: susanv@usca.edu

USC Aiken women's soccer coach Sue Vodicka enters her eighth season heading the Pacers, and during her first seven seasons the Pacers have compiled a 33-77-7 record. 

The 2011 edition of the Pacers went 4-12, while going 2-4 at the Pacer Pit.  The Pacers also earned a Peach Belt Conference victory by defeating Georgia Southwestern 1-0 at home Oct. 8, 2011.

The 2010 USC Aiken women’s soccer team concluded its year by producing a positive result in four of its final five games. The Pacers earned three wins in the final five games to end the year with a 5-11-2 (0-8-2 PBC) record overall.

The 2009 USC Aiken women's soccer team was honored as one of the top 20 most improved NCAA Division II women's soccer team.

The rankings are done by calculating a team's improvement by comparing its final 2009 rating to an adjusted 2008 rating. A team's rating roughly equates to net goals (goals scored minus goals against).

The criteria allowed the Pacers to obtain a 1.34 rating to leave them with the 15th-best improvement in all of Division II women's soccer. USC Aiken improved its win total by three games in 2009.

The 2009 USC Aiken women's soccer campaign ended with the Pacers owning a 6-11 record overall. USC Aiken finished the season winning four of its final five games. The Pacers concluded the 2009 Peach Belt Conference season with a 2-8 record.

In a season full of close contests for the Pacer women, USC Aiken ended its 2009 Peach Belt Conference slate having been on the losing side of three overtime games in PBC action. In total, USC Aiken finished its 2009 season with nine one-goal losses.

The Pacers lost six of their eight games in PBC play by just one goal.

USC Aiken's defensive unit had a tremendous season-ending stretch of not allowing a goal. The Pacer defense had not given up a goal in just over 501 minutes before surrendering the first goal of the match to GCSU in their season finale. The Pacers had played the entire 90 minutes of the previous four matches without surrendering a goal.

In 2008, Vodicka guided the Pacers to a 3-15-2 record, which included a 1-7-1 record in Peach Belt Conference games.

Vodicka engineered a remarkable turnaround in 2006, guiding her squad to a fourth place finish in the Peach Belt Conference after being predicted to place ninth. USC Aiken finished the season 7-11-2, including a 4-4-1 mark in PBC play. The four conference wins marked the combined total for the program’s previous six seasons of league play.

The conference coaches took notice of the work Vodicka had done and voted her the 2006 PBC Coach of the Year, the first USC Aiken women’s soccer coach to earn that award.

Vodicka was named the second head women’s soccer coach at USC Aiken in the program’s history on July 20, 2005.

In her first season with the Pacers, Vodicka began laying the building blocks for a successful program moving forward.

Hired late in the summer, Vodicka fielded a team that was short on numbers, but not on excitement and hard work.

Vodicka came to USCA with 11 years of NCAA Division I coaching experience, including one season as the head coach at Virginia Commonwealth University. She served as an assistant at the College of William & Mary, Washington State and George Mason University.

Prior to her arrival, USC Aiken head men’s soccer coach Ike Ofoje had served as head coach of both the men’s and women’s teams since the Pacers began play in 1997.

As a student-athlete at George Mason, Vodicka was a member of three NCAA Tournament teams. The 1983 squad made it to the national championship game and her 1985 team claimed the NCAA National Championship by beating North Carolina in the title match.

She earned a Bachelor’s of Arts Degree in English from GMU in 1986 and a Virginia Secondary Teaching Certificate in 1992.

The George Mason graduate served as assistant coach at her alma mater from 1999 to 2003. During her five seasons, the Patriots were 49-48-7 overall but went 25-11-3 in Colonial Athletic Association (CAA) play. GMU tied for first place in the CAA in 2000 and 2001, and finished second in 2002. The team was the CAA Tournament runner-up in 2000 and 2002.

At GMU, Vodicka coached six NSCAA All-Region selections, 13 All-CAA selections and 10 All-CAA Tournament selections. More impressively, while overseeing the team’s academics for all five seasons, 41 Patriot women’s soccer players received the CAA Commissioner’s Academic Award and the squad posted George Mason’s highest team GPA in six of nine semesters.

Before accepting the position at her alma mater, Vodicka served as head coach for one season at Virginia Commonwealth. The Rams posted a 7-9-2 overall record and a 2-5-1 mark in the CAA. While she spent just one season at the helm of the program, her impact was strong. VCU earned the program’s first ever conference wins over James Madison and American University, and they tied 10th-ranked Virginia.

In addition, her squad produced two All-CAA selections. Vodicka made her collegiate head coaching debut after serving two seasons as assistant coach and recruiting coordinator at Washington State.

In her first season in Pullman, Wash., the Cougars doubled their win total from the previous season. In two seasons combined, Vodicka coached four All-PAC-10 selections while nine Cougars earned PAC-10 All-Academic honors.

Vodicka began her collegiate coaching career at the College of William & Mary where she served as assistant coach from 1993 to 1995. During Vodicka’s three seasons at William & Mary, the Tribe made three NCAA Tournament appearances, posted a 43-16-2 record and went unbeaten in the CAA at 15-0-1.

The team captured two CAA Championships and finished as the runner-up once. The 1994 squad went 17-4-0 (6-0-0 CAA) on its way to winning the CAA Championship and making the NCAA’s Sweet 16.